Many armor modelers swear by drybrushing with oils, but I have found them difficult to mix so that you get the subtle variation of the base color, which for me is almost always tamiya acrylic.
I’ve never really liked the consistency of the oils either, as the brush often stiffens up as you wipe off the excess paint when preparing the drybrush.
What do you guys drybrush your tank kits with?
Mostly acrylics anymore, but they dry a lot faster. I still like to use enamels also. Kind of depends the paint available.
When I do drybrush I use oils. They take a long time to dry but nothing beats them for blendablitly…(word?) I know a lot of folks use acrylics but they just dry to fast for me. I use oils for most of the weathering I do except for powder washes …ect…
Acrylics are the way to go for me right now…I have limited experience with oils but that could change soon…I just bought a nice set of them [:)]
On a lark I decided to do a lil bit a both.
I bought some of those Windsor Newton water soluble oils – I picked up their olive green and also some ochre as well as a yellowish color. Also some of the thinner stuff they make for their water soluble oils – you can clean up with water, but thinning is I think best done with their stuff.
I think I’ll lighten up the olive a bit with ochre and maybe some of the yellow and see how it works as a drybrush. Got a nice #2 round brush as well. Well, I’ll see the results soon enough – and so will you! I’ll post pics of the Mack and howitzer when I am done drybrushing.
I use acrylics. Pretty much because thats what I have and have gotten used to.
Have used both.
Glenn
I dry brush with MM enamels. I have to change brushes quite often, but I like sticking to the paint I use normally.
I have just learned how to dry-brush with artist oils correctly and I LOVE the results I can get. I start by getting some white artist oil paint straight from the tube onto a clean brush. Then I brush off as much paint as I possibly can using a dry paper towel. When there appears to be no more paint on the brush, I dip it into odorless paint thinner and repeat the brush cleaning process with the dry paper towel. Again, once I have gotten off all the paint that I possibly can, I start dry-brushing the model.
If you want to check out the results, take a look at the Pershing on the workbench of my website. Remember to always test a new method out before applying it to your model. Good luck![:D]
I love oils for both drybrushing and washing , they dry slow and are very forgiving as far as blending and fixing due to their slow drying as well . Acrylics dry way too fast for me , I like to look at the model in different light and then adjust it accordingly , acrylic just does not give me that opportunity personally . I learned this by default , as I used to use acrylics or testors religeously before in this dept .!
I drybrush with acrylics and weather with oils.
I use enamels all the time. I tried oils once, and it wasn’t a good experience, though it wasn’t with drybrusing. [censored][censored][:(] I also use pastels. I sometimes use acrylics, but mostly I stick with enamels. though I may try both some day [2c]